Nutrition and fertility

If you are finding it difficult to get pregnant, it may be worthwhile having your nutrition checked, as each partner's nutritional status can be extremely important to the prospects for conception and pregnancy. Nutritional deficiencies are common in older couples with ageing eggs and sperm, women with weight problems (over and under) as well as in women with underlying imbalances and associated fertility problems, such as PCOS or endometriosis.

There are seven basic principles we work to in every consultation, in order to improve not just your nutrition, but the workings of your digestive system too:

1) improving the workings of the digestive system so that it is able to absorb vital nutrients from food

2) restoring blood sugar balance for good hormonal control (unbalanced hormones can be a common problem for fertility)

3) restoring the acid/alkaline balance in the body (many of the male and female fertility problems we see are contributed to by over-acidity in the body)

4) assessing the lifestyle changes necessary to ensure you minimize environmental hormone-disrupters (such as over the counter medication, alcohol, cigarettes, MSG, aspartame etc) which can have an adverse effect on fertility by depleting the body of essential nutrients

5) reducing stress - which can have a powerful, adverse effect on the digestive system

6) looking at weight (being over or underweight can be an issue)

7) exploring immune issues (high levels of oxidative stress are increasingly associated with difficulty getting pregnant, recurrent miscarriage and repeated IVF failure)

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